Tired with swollen lymph nodes
Still trying to get to the bottom of why I am so tired a year after chemo. I sleep 11 to 14 hours in every 24. My psychiatrist though it might be depression and put me on anti-depressants. A few mo...
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Saw the GP doctor yesterday since my surgeon had asked what my GP doctor had to say about my nodes and I said I hadn't been seeing him, just the psych doctor and his nurse and the oncology doc who ordered blood tests and an ultrasound of the breast and armpit when he found my nodes large in the neck and one in the under arm.
I requested my husband allow me to go into the appointment by myself but of course he didn't listen and came in with me. He has taken this whole carer thing to a smothering level. The doctor and he had met at a Christian men's breakfast a week before so the pair of them were just grinning at each other. It was difficult to get the doctors proper attention but he looked up the scan results and parroted off a lump 2mm and benign. I am not sure how they figured that out from an ultrasound but ok.
The doctor listened when I told him I went off the Escitalopram due to diarrhoea which the phych doctor didn't seem concerned about at the time and my next appointment with him is way off in August. My GP offered to suggest some alternative psych meds but I declined. I would sooner be depressed than have heart palpitations every day and diarrhoea 5 times every morning.
As to the neck glands being up, he didn't even feel my neck or my underarm and just said I have low immunity and even though I may not have a temperature or pain anywhere my body is trying to fight off bugs in my system and the nodes are up from that. No follow up appointment with him and he said once again, don't come in unless I have something major which needs medication as sitting in the doctors waiting room is a bad place to be for a person with low immunity.
I see oncology on Monday I think so he will have the blood test results and may be able to explain to me in an Australian accent (not a foreign which is difficult to understand in my GP) more about this low immune system. I would have thought 13 months post chemo I should be pretty good by now?
I also see the surgeon again I think on Tuesday or Wednesday so he will follow up the nodes thing as well.
I requested my husband allow me to go into the appointment by myself but of course he didn't listen and came in with me. He has taken this whole carer thing to a smothering level. The doctor and he had met at a Christian men's breakfast a week before so the pair of them were just grinning at each other. It was difficult to get the doctors proper attention but he looked up the scan results and parroted off a lump 2mm and benign. I am not sure how they figured that out from an ultrasound but ok.
The doctor listened when I told him I went off the Escitalopram due to diarrhoea which the phych doctor didn't seem concerned about at the time and my next appointment with him is way off in August. My GP offered to suggest some alternative psych meds but I declined. I would sooner be depressed than have heart palpitations every day and diarrhoea 5 times every morning.
As to the neck glands being up, he didn't even feel my neck or my underarm and just said I have low immunity and even though I may not have a temperature or pain anywhere my body is trying to fight off bugs in my system and the nodes are up from that. No follow up appointment with him and he said once again, don't come in unless I have something major which needs medication as sitting in the doctors waiting room is a bad place to be for a person with low immunity.
I see oncology on Monday I think so he will have the blood test results and may be able to explain to me in an Australian accent (not a foreign which is difficult to understand in my GP) more about this low immune system. I would have thought 13 months post chemo I should be pretty good by now?
I also see the surgeon again I think on Tuesday or Wednesday so he will follow up the nodes thing as well.